Oracle VM VirtualBox: Ticket #7486: Windows XP Guest taskbar overlays host taskbar in seamless modehttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/7486
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Environment: Windows XP or Vista host with Windows XP guest.
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Summary: When in seamless mode, the windows guest taskbar will overlay the host taskbar making the host hard to use. The steps to recreate this are below.
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<ol><li>Create an XP VM in <a class="wiki" href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox">VirtualBox</a> 3.2.8 or earlier
</li><li>Start the VM
</li><li>Open an IE browser
</li><li>Switch to seamless mode
</li><li>Close the VM, and elect to save its state
</li><li>Start the VM
</li><li>Lock the screen
</li><li>Wait while the VM restores "behind" the locked screen
</li><li>Unlock the screen. Note that the browser is displayed in seamless mode, but only one task bar is visible.
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I was running a single display. When I extended my display into an auxiliary monitor. the symptom I was was that the <a class="wiki" href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox">VirtualBox</a> taskbar and the VM browser came up in the auxiliary monitor rather than the main monitor.
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Trac 0.12michalnThu, 16 Sep 2010 13:43:50 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/7486#comment:1
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What exactly does "lock the screen" mean? Does that refer to the Windows screen locking function (where a password needs to be entered to unlock the screen)?
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Ticketvb usermanThu, 16 Sep 2010 13:55:34 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/7486#comment:2
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Yes, that is what I mean by lock the screen.
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TicketfrankMon, 04 Oct 2010 17:37:07 GMTcomponent changedhttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/7486#comment:3
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changed from <em>other</em> to <em>GUI/seamless</em>
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